Medicine chest for cholera, English, 1849-1900.

Image number: 10288230

This chest contains medicines for the treatment of cholera, an infectious gastrointestinal disease. Cholera epidemics swept across Europe and America from the 1830s onwards. In Britain, Dr John Snow (1813-1858) famously traced the source of a cholera outbreak to a particular water pump, thus proving that it was a water-borne disease that could be prevented by improved sanitation. Made by Godfrey & Cooke.